I only separated them because Bella is a spaz and I was in the GP room feeding them and she ran right into Norbie side and the cyst started to ooze/bleed. I was worried that they would hurt her.

The Vet said that I should separate her for a week or so.

But, I think after seeing how she reacted to Willow that I should put her back in the cage with the other girls. It will be harder to monitor her food and water intake (and her poops, they are still small and shaped thin and curly-its hard to describe but they are not normal yet)

I need to change the girls cage in the morning. I will do that and then put Norbie in on the clean bedding and see how it goes.

I think if anyone would chew it would be Norbie. She used to barber Rosie. Rosie had long hair and I swear, Norbie would eat it like spaghetti.

Norbie is really the piggie who checks everyone out and makes sure they are ok. She's also the piggie that moves all the cozies together so she can be close to the other girls. So, I know she misses them!

But, I work til 9pm tomorrow night so I won't be home to monitor her.

I don't want to put her in for a "visit" either and then disrupt her by putting her back in quarantine.

I'm off Friday-Sunday so I could probably put her back on friday and monitor her all weekend.

Is there any way you can split part of the cage off and put Norbie in with just a gridwall between her and her cagemates?

Alternatively, if you have her in a petstore cage to minimize moving around, if you can, just put the whole cage inside her normal cage. The others will walk around it and talk to her and chew on it to get her out. ;-)

I could probably figure out a way to split the cage. The quarantine cage is probably too big to put inside the cage. It is a store bought cage but it is slightly smaller then a 2x3 CC cage. The 3 girls's cage is 2x6 so it would give the 2 piggies 2x3 of space. I suppose I can look and see what it looks like.

I have extra grids so I know I can split it but I would probably have to give Norbie 2x2 and that seems soooo small for her. But, its only for a week or so.

Tomorrow I am going to clean the entire GP room (we have company coming this weekend) and then see what I can do about getting Norbie back with the girls!

The husband's oldest daughter and her two kids (hellions) are coming and I am going to close the GP room door and we are putting a "sleigh bell" on the door so if someone opens it, we will hear it! (thanks to my grandmom for the long strip of bells on leather that make a LOUD noise).

Eating is very good. Was she leaving a little pile for you as she was eating non-stop?

Sakura's weight has been up and down, too. I was expecting this to happen, and watched for the trend. When her weight would consistently decrease, without the upward bump, then I gave her Critical Care.

It is great. It probably was a mistake to separate them. At the time, I didn't want the other girls to do something to accicently hurt her but she seems so much more lively in the big cage with the others.

Live and learn, I guess. If there ever is a next time, I will know better.

Huge ditto to Tracis. I don't worry about weight bobbles. I'd worry only if it trends downward continually and consistently.

Also -- I don't think you made a mistake separating her for a while. If she'd gotten too active too quickly; if one of the others had decided to remove her stitches for her; if anything had happened where you'd had to have her incision repaired and then it got infected or *whatever*, then you'd be kicking yourself the other way.

She is down another 10g this evening. So, she has now lost 100g since MONDAY.

I know that part of that weight was the cyst. But she seems to be eating hay, pellets, veggies, and water. I watched her eat almost constantly for an hour so why is she still losing. I would be happy with just stabilizing.

It would be one thing if she was just laying there and not eating. But, she is moving around from the pellet bowls to the hayrak to the cozies and she is eating.

I have never had a piggie who has had surgery so I don't know what to expect and when the weight will stabilize. (sorry if I am harping on it, I am just worried)

Do you have some Critical Care to supplement her with? If in doubt, do so.

I suspect she's burning up more energy being back with her friends, and her body needs that energy to continue to heal. Give her some supplemental Critical Care; it will probably make you both feel better.